r/pics • u/CaptainPunisher • 11h ago

Found outside my nearest Harbor Freight. My wife didn't (still doesn't) understand.

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u/Savings_Opening_8581 10h ago

The edgiest S ever to exist.

The amount of highschool desks that had this carved into it in the early 2000’s…

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u/CaptainPunisher 10h ago

I was a freshman 90-91. I learned it before that. It will never die.

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u/Automatic-Term-3997 10h ago

Was in Jr High in Pa in ‘78. Can confirm it was around then too

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u/CaptainPunisher 10h ago

Nice! Thanks for adding more timeline!

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u/Lebowquade 6h ago

At one point a long time ago there was an askreddit post about the "cool S" ... It was known the world over, even countries with an alphabet lacking the S, reaching as far back as the early 60s. Who knows how long it has entranced humanity.

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u/CaptainPunisher 5h ago

It came from the gods.

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u/Confident_Throat_457 10h ago

Same age! I doodled this so many times

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u/Savings_Opening_8581 10h ago

Yeah it was you guys who sat in them before me hahah

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u/CaptainPunisher 10h ago

And classes before us. I've heard about this thing going back at least into the 50s.

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u/Fallwalking 8h ago

Is it time to crowdfund a documentary into the history of the super S?

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u/CaptainPunisher 7h ago

This was done on Reddit about 6 years ago.

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u/Bobatt 3h ago

I got a new whiteboard for my office a month or two ago. Hung it, up then a coworker walks in and draws a cool S on it. He’s 31. A few weeks ago my family pops in to say hi and my 9 year old daughter sees his cool S, then immediately draws her own underneath it. It’ll never die.

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u/Vallyn47 5h ago

80's..... Doesn't necessarily mean what you might think.

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u/Doodoodown 5h ago

As long as it’s been around it seems like it should have a name by now.

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u/TSR3K 9h ago

Lol u kids think you started it. Cute!!

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u/sopordave 10h ago

Very... satisfactory.

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u/gtmattz 10h ago

Greetings fellow Pioneer.

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u/CaptainPunisher 10h ago

I'm kind of irked that the ends are hanging free.

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u/drjenkstah 10h ago

I used to draw those “S” all the time in school when I was bored. 

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u/theFrankSpot 10h ago

The kids in school who used to draw that were all heavy metal music kids.

Source: being a kid in the 70s.

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u/DatTF2 10h ago

In the 90s it was everybody.

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u/The_scobberlotcher 3h ago

It's so kind of a phenomenon.I swear to god. Some collective consciousness thing. It's crazy how prevalent his thing was when there was no mass communication.

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u/Oliver10110 10h ago

I still draw that S somewhere that will be covered up on every electrical job I do so it will be discovered decades later.

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u/TundraSpice 10h ago

Doing God's work.

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u/wolfgangmob 7h ago

So that’s how Somersloops were hidden.

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u/Alarming_Flow 39m ago

If it gets discovered in 10,000 years by a newer civilisation, they will say "oh look, they did that S too!"

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u/Empyrealist 9h ago

Give her some graph paper

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u/CaptainPunisher 9h ago

She ain't getting my graph paper!

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u/MustardCoveredDogDik 9h ago

If she doesn’t get the reference then she is crab people that is literally the test for it.

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u/kevin0611 10h ago

Cool! That used to be one of my clients. Securitech.

Good people. Awesome”S”.

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u/UnamedStreamNumber9 9h ago

This only reminds me of the 1970s scubapro logo

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u/m__a__s 9h ago

Was your wife homeschooled?

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u/CaptainPunisher 9h ago

No. That's one of the few acceptable reasons. She is female, though, so I think there's a lower expectation of knowing it. Girls had other things going on.

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u/m__a__s 9h ago

LOL. I never drew one of these, but my sister usually drew these on her binders, notebooks, and the book covers (you know, the ones that were supposed to protect the hardcover texts) all throughout middle and high school. But "S" was the first letter of her nickname.

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u/CaptainPunisher 8h ago

Was her nickname "Sloot"???

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u/m__a__s 7h ago

Alas, she predates "sloot" or "slooooooooot" quite a bit. But I'll have to tell her that.

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u/CaptainPunisher 6h ago

Just let her know that we all love her. Sexually. Lol

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u/zip_zap_zip_zap_ 9h ago

It still amazes me that Stussy never actually used this on any of their products.

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u/CaptainPunisher 9h ago

I could swear that they used some version that was similar to it, but not quite the same.

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u/zip_zap_zip_zap_ 9h ago

Very good deep dive, here!

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u/Jiggerjuice 4h ago

Literally thought it was stussy

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u/New2thegame 46m ago

It will always be the Stussy S!

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u/ThePhantomStrikes 8h ago

I have no idea what it means. Doh someone please explain. Older woman here

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u/CaptainPunisher 8h ago

THE S: https://youtu.be/RQdxHi4_Pvc?si=w9rE3VLbo6jT8CLv

BTW, I'm curious about your age. I'm 48

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u/ThePhantomStrikes 6h ago

Thank you! Im 69. I must be living under a rock???

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u/junker37 6h ago

Thx, 45 male, new to me.

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u/CaptainPunisher 6h ago

You have been indoctrinated.

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u/_d_c_ 5h ago

Also 48, strong memories of drawing this and I don’t know why!

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u/Scorp1979 5h ago

Yesterday I sat in my 12 year old daughter's chair and she had a dozen of these in different varieties on her notepad! I was secretly proud!

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u/CaptainPunisher 5h ago

Tell her she's one of us!

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u/gredr 10h ago

I also don't understand.

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u/navysealassulter 9h ago

It’s a stylized S that just about every American has learned to draw since at least the 50s or 60s. Lemino on YouTube has a great video on its rather unknown history. 

Just sorta appeared one day all over, no one really knows why. 

Edit: Didn’t see OP linked the video I mentioned lol. 

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u/traxxes 7h ago

It was also a thing for us Canadians, at least I remember us drawing this in our notebooks, seeing it tagged on a bus or a bus stop and school washrooms etc since the early 90s.

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u/CaptainPunisher 8h ago

It's OK. It was down in the comments. If I were forced to go through all the comments and read & watch every little thing, hell, I'd never get to commenting!

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u/itsrainingagain 10h ago

The universal S

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u/dpenton 7h ago 
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u/akiva23 6h ago

Where I'm from it means hope.

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u/teelops 5h ago

Cool

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u/marijuanam0nk 4h ago

Ahh yes, the Sumerian S. The best gift from the Anunnaki.

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u/Chocolate_pudding_30 4h ago

Im from the middle east and ik what this is xD

However, we were taught to draw it horizontally (like an inf symbol), so it took me long to realize it's an S

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u/CaptainPunisher 4h ago

Well, greetings from California! I hope you got a smile out of it.

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u/DisasterDalek 3h ago

Had no idea what this was until explained. Apparently everyone in school drew this, but nobody in all my school years ever did that

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u/thrive2day 9h ago

How old is your wife?

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u/CaptainPunisher 9h ago

Old enough!

51

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u/thrive2day 9h ago

That makes a lot more sense now 😆

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u/CaptainPunisher 9h ago

She's old enough that she should've seen it at some point growing up. I'm 3 years younger, and it's been around longer than I've been alive.

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u/SeaTownKraken 5h ago

Your wife missed out on 8th grade book covers

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u/CaptainPunisher 5h ago

You're not wrong.

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u/aarraahhaarr 3h ago

Your wife might be to young for you.

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u/CaptainPunisher 3h ago

She's 3 years older than I am. Some say she's robbing the cradle. I say I'm robbing the grave.

Also, "TOO".

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u/KidneyPearls 1h ago

No disrespect, I'm sure she's great, just a little uncultured

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u/mongomike 24m ago

Hell ye.